vernon clark says this about him. this is vernon clark, the cno who appointed him. he did what i asked him to do, i wanted straight talk, and this put him in the crosshairs, he challenged people who didn't want to be challenged. this guy is a courageous, a patriot's patriot. a new cno came in, the new cno had the prerogative to remove him, he did you say the word, relieved of duty and terminated. those words sound like he was fired, like he did something wrong. that he was not getting a good performance review. what was it? >> well that's what the military journals say, that he was fired. and he has commented about what admirable clark said. but when admirable mullen came in, he terminated him. and as the pittsburgh "post-gazette" quoted and i wrote it down. these are not my words. the pittsburgh "post-gazette" on april 5th said a current admiral said that sestak had quote a tyrannical leadership style. he would command by fear and intimidation. and that was why he was terminated. because of his poor command climate. listen, those aren't my words, those are the repo

includes, for example, the investigation that was conducted by the former chief of naval operations vernon clarkand the former secretary of the army. both of them are private individuals now and yet they have been given access to documents and many individuals that our committee has been denied access to. that makes no sense at all. it includes giving both mr. west and mr. clark access to hassan's personnel file, which we have repeatedly requested. these three investigations, which are being conducted largely by private citizens were given access to documents and witnesses that our official congressional investigation has not had access to is estimately unacceptable. the concerns that have been expressed by administration officials. we have offered, for example, to develop protocols to safeguard the information. we have pointed out that our committee rules prohibit the disclosure of confidential information during the course of the investigation. we have pointed out that the speech or debate clause of the constitution protected the materials that we develop or are given access to from being disc